Craft3 and the Finance team are on a mission to build a thriving, just and empowered Pacific Northwest. We invest in people, businesses, and communities, and work towards a future of shared prosperity across our region. Our Finance team supports the mission through conscientious, effective financial management.

As the Staff Accountant -- Loans, you'll be responsible for assisting with the financial accounting and for Craft 3's loans receivable and payable. This position is responsible for supporting the Assistant Controller's goals and Craft3's mission and is responsible for supporting and helping to maintain policies, procedures and a system of internal controls to safeguard the assets of Craft3. The Staff Accountant -- Loans is responsible for supporting the Assistant Controller, Controller and CFO in collaborating with Craft3's independent accountants to help ensure the successful audit of its financial statements and completion of its tax and information returns.

This position collaborates with the Assistant Controller in an integral part of a distributed accounting team that is working independently from remote locations.  Frequent communications in all forms are of vital importance in a successful Accounting and Finance team.  The goals of the Staff Accountant -- Loans support the goals of the Assistant Controller, Controller and the CFO and the goals and mission of Craft3.

Your responsibilities

Essential duties and responsibilities will include:

Your skills and abilities:

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Passion for improving Pacific Northwest Communities.
• Excellent prioritization and organization skills and effective time management to succeed in a semi-autonomous, fast-paced environment.
• Motivated self-starter.
• Maintain a level of confidentiality around sensitive information.
• Effective electronic communications with a high degree of precision and detail.
• Intellectual curiosity and enjoyment of continuous learning.
• Strong work ethic, unquestioned integrity, and the desire to achieve.
• Ability to successfully work with colleagues located in local and satellite offices.
• Ability to develop new procedures to meet identified needs and/or to adjust to changes in procedures as necessary.
• Effective electronic communications with high degree of precision and detail.
• Effective listening and communication skills with the ability to communicate issues over the phone, in person, by video chat and email to a variety of audiences.
• Comfort and proficiency with financial and loan management database platforms.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite, shared files system and Contact Relationship Management systems.

*Accounting leadership: *

Supporting policies, procedures and internal controls and planned changes.

Processing daily ACH and check batches for loan payments and disbursements.

Processing participation loan remittances

Tracking and requesting payment for notes payable payments.

Accounting for non-accrual and debt recovery loans.

Completing month-end loan accounting journal entries.

Collaborating with lending teams to record transactions in the lending software.

Maintaining timely balance sheet account reconciliations as assigned by the Assistant Controller - Loans.

Supporting the goal for monthly and quarterly, financial statements being published within 10 business days of month-end.

Supporting the effort for the audited consolidated financial statements to be issued within 120 calendar days from year-end and without material adjustments or material weaknesses in internal controls.

Supporting with tax accountants needs for the timely filing of federal, state and local tax and information returns.